| Autor: |
Timothy J. Randle, G. Richard Marzolf, William L. Jackson |
| Rok vydání: |
1999 |
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| Zdroj: |
The Controlled Flood in Grand Canyon |
| DOI: |
10.1029/gm110p0359 |
| Popis: |
The linkage between management and science is sometimes strained. Management must be broadly attentive to the perceived desires of various resource users, while scientists are usually focused on natural phenomena, how they are controlled, and how perturbation effects change. These different perspectives commonly result in mismatching objectives and misunderstandings. The 1996 controlled flood represents a productive convergence of river science and dam management stimulated by the process of writing an environmental impact statement. The EIS task focused on effects the of dam operations on the river. The understanding and prediction of the effects required by the EIS was underpinned by scientific inquiry coordinated by the Bureau of Reclamation's Glen Canyon Environmental Studies (GCES) program. The controlled flood itself was a demonstration of a management tool while serving also as a manipulative experiment to test theoretical ideas about how the river works. It became clear that management's role involves the definition of the problems and goals and science's role is development of objective knowledge about natural phenomena. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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